It’s September, so that can only mean one thing. All that is great and good in the UK tuning and styling scene descends on the hallowed ground of Silverstone for the Trax show. Trax is one of the jewels in the UK show calendar. Awesome cars, plentiful public track time and of course the setting [...]
This summer has been flat out crazy. Ever since seemingly getting the 86-X ready just in time for Gatebil, we have been hard at work. In Norway, the 86-X needed plenty of TLC after I basically tore the whole thing apart at our first outing. In the US, we have been fighting technical gremlins with [...]
My first memory of anything Hachiroku, and also anything drifting, started with a gentleman named Katsuhiro Ueo. I am sure many of you remember those short, gritty, AMAZING drifting video clips to first come out of Japan. I know this is technically an AE85, and not a REAL 86, but this was what started it [...]
Although the Speedhunters Gatebil 2012 drift and media team have now scattered to the corners of the globe, we are all still basking in the afterglow of the experience of a lifetime. The event was simply that great. And while we’d all love to hold on to the immediacy of these memories, it’s soon going to be time to move on to our next projects. But before this happens, I thought to round up Darren, MadMike and Fredric for one last look at their own Gatebil stories.
If you haven’t noticed by now, Gatebil Rudskogen was a pretty wild place. When I arrived I really didn’t know what to make of it but quickly discovered it’s only too easy to become overwhelmed. With so much going on at any time just trying to decide where to go and what to do becomes [...]
Yesterday was a very long day. After flying into Norway from Tokyo it was straight to Fredric’s house just outside Oslo for a rendezvous with the soon to be completed 86X. Fredric and his crew have been working literally non stop for the last two and a half weeks putting together this impressive 2JZ-powered 86, [...]
We are three days away from roll-in at Gatebil Rudskogen. From the small glimpses I get from the outside world, it seems like people are eagerly awaiting the craziness that is about to go down deep inside the woods an hour south of Oslo, Norway. In the mancave, things are moving along at a rapid [...]
Part three of the 86-X build story had ended with me arriving in New Jersey for Formula Drift Round 4. Qualifying in third, we started off the event strong, but with the help of a drivetrain failure in the final turn of our Top 16 battles we ended our competition weekend early.
Right now, we are twenty days away from Gatebil July and people from all over the world are involved in getting the Speedhunters Toyota 86-X ready for its debut. These are some of the cogs in the machinery: In Japan, Miura-San and his guys at TRA Kyoto are currently getting ready to ship out the [...]
Hello, fellow Speedhunters! After months of planning, part one of the Speedhunters Toyota 86-X build ended with me picking up this GT 86 from Toyota Norway. I brought the car straight to our small shop in the outskirts of Ski, Norway and called my friend Espen, who is a Toyota repair specialist. It took one [...]
Speedhunters is excited to announce that international drifting stars Fredric Aasbø and Darren McNamara will be returning to the UK and Ireland in 2012 for back-to-back weekends as part of the Speedhunters Drift Tour 2012. Fredric and Darren will be back to challenge Europe’s top drift teams at the British Drift Championship’s round at Trax, [...]
Four years ago, I was working 9 to 5 as a graphic designer. I had always wondered what it was like to chase my dream, and one day I found myself putting everything else behind and putting the little that I had left into this disease called drifting. In hindsight, it has allowed me to [...]
Vaughn Gittin Jr has qualified in first place, bouncing back after a string of bad luck. It seems he is back to his old ways again on the brand new Palm Beach course. He got a score of 94 out of 100 on his very first run, just grazing the clipping points with his rear [...]
Somehow the Speedhunters of mainland China keep up with the happenings in the motoring world even though websites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are blocked. It’s weird how the government selects which sites to block and which sites to allow. For example, my personal website is blocked for some reason, but luckily for the Chinese [...]
There is no doubting the popularity of the sport of drifting today. It took just one live action feature film staring Jay Chou for drifting to spread through all of China. Imagine having government-backed drift events with packed attendance and in venues that are Olympic worthy. Well, that is exactly what you have in the port [...]
